Thursday 05-05-16

It is amazing to me that the administration will do everything it can to stop guns, but won't even try to stop the border crossing that kill more people than a gun does.  They want a person not to own them even though it is legal for them to do it.  They wont stop the illegal border crossings.  Now they are going after a state (NC) for doing what its constituents want that is legal, because they don't like it.  How about concentrate on taking care of what is illegal?  People should not feel they need a gun to protect themselves, that is the governments job, or at least that is what they say.

April Marks 12th Straight Month of Record Gun Sales
http://freebeacon.com/issues/april-marks-12th-straight-month-record-gun-sales/

Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns
http://thehill.com/regulation/pending-regs/278740-social-security-moves-to-block-the-mentally-ill-from-purchasing-guns

IL school district installs fingerprint scanner in cafeteria

GENEVA, Ill. – Students and faculty at Harrison Street Elementary School just love the new thumbprint scanner in the school’s lunch line, but civil rights experts are warning parents about serious privacy concerns with the technology.
The Geneva Unit District 304 replaced a different biometric scanner system for school lunch lines this year with devices from a local company, PushCoin Inc., that read students’ thumb prints to track their accounts, the Daily Herald reports.
“It’s good, because you don’t have to carry your own money or anything like that,” fifth-grader Quinlan Bobeczko told the news site. “It’s just there. Your thumb is easy, because you just have to put your thumb on (the device).”
Officials in several area school districts are watching District 304 in hopes of installing similar devices in their schools.
East Maine Elementary District 63 spokeswoman Janet Bishop said the district hired PushCoin Inc. this spring to begin offering the thumb scan option this month, and Lake Zurich Unit District 95 board president Doug Goldberg said schools there will implement the biometric scanners in the 2016-17 school year, the Daily Herald reports.
“I will tell you that many of the kids aren’t very good about keeping track of their ID cards,” Goldberg said. “And so moving to biometrics was felt to be sort of the next generation of that individual, unique ID. We’ll record their thumbprints, there will be thumbprint readers at all the cash registers, and they’ll simply come by and — bang — hit their thumbprint. It makes it faster and, also, there’s a lot less opportunity for any kind of misuse or fraud when they’re using biometrics.”
PushCoin Inc. allows parents to closely monitor their children’s lunch accounts through email updates, and the company’s CEO, Anna Lisznianski contends the scanners can help school officials use lunch time more efficiently.
http://eagnews.org/il-school-district-installs-fingerprint-scanner-in-cafeteria/